Paid Quotes - Page 33

• I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

  Ed McBain

  Writing, Editors, Careers

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Class, Numbers, People

  Carl I. Hagen's speech at the Progress Party national convention, 1987.

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• I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but I gotta represent Boston and the Red Sox in every way that I do outside this game. ... Like I said I get paid to play baseball no [matter] where I go to play I still gotta go and perform even if I like it or not.

  Manny Ramirez

  Baseball, Fun, Boston

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• We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in the past paid little regard to structure or the environment and just focused on the sport of skiing. We've gone a step further and provided an immersive environment.

  Phil Taylor

  Sports, Past, Mountain

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• If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Successful, Average

  Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

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• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

  Rachel Maddow

  Radio

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.

  Joe Vitale

  Way, Clue, Should

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• Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Mean, Earning It

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.65, Penguin

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• God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Humility, Thinking, Worry

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• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

  Andy Pettitte

  Men, Yankees, Faces

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

  Auberon Waugh

  Holiday, Law, Suffering

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• Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Saint

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• It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

  Kevin Bales

  Talking, Numbers, People

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, People, Events

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• Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.

  Bill Walsh

  Offering, Opinion Leaders, Nfl

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.101, Penguin

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• I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

  Sean Lennon

  Father, Lucky, Attention

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• CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

  Carl Icahn

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

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• A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Numbers, Four, Hours

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• [T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.

  Robert G. Wilmers

  Banking, Loan

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• We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

  John Spratt

  Cutting, Add, Debt

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• Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  Carole Keeton

  Law, Government, Care

  "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.

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• The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

  Kenny Marchant

  Alaska, Years, Oil

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